Is there any poison for fire ants you can use safely for free-range chickens?? My son found one we think is ok called “Over ‘n Out”. We have Fire Ants n out chickens free range all over the yard.
Has anyone found a cheap source of egg cartons for a dozen eggs? I’m giving eggs away since I get 6/day so I don’t want to spend $1 a carton on top of it.
My sons new mower finally came and he’s mowing tonight. He found a cardboard box in our burn pile with about 2 dozen eggs in it!! Are they good? Do a float test on them? Or just discard?
Had a flock of 8. 1 roo. Born March 2024 so 6 months old. All hens laying. Fed them at around 4 PM one night. All there and accounted for and eating. They go to bed around 6:30-7:00ish. 4 roost on top of the garage (they get there by flying from the porch to the roof) and 4 roost on the back...
I had predicted Aug. 7 so it was pretty much expected. Anyway, now I need to switch them to Layer Feed right? And I have one roo— it’s ok if he eats it right? Up until now they’ve been on chick feed.
Hi, all. My chickens have free range of our fenced in 1.2 acre around our house. A few nights ago, my son heard squawking and went out to investigate. There was a strange dog in our yard (who got in through a broken slat in the fence we found out the next day) chasing our chickens around in the...
and 2 of those are roosters and the rest pullets. The roo's are crowing, started a week ago. Shouldn't the pullets be laying? Which comes first, the crow or the laying?
My grandparents had a sheep ranch out in west Texas (Santa Anna, Texas to be specific). Lived there from around 1920-1990. Anyway, my parents gifted them ONE PAIR of standard green/blue peafowl in 1954 for their anniversary. Peafowl got no 'extra' care. Were turned loose on the ranch. Out of...
I had some EE's born March 20 in one coop (after getting rid of 6 roo's I have 7 left) and 7 separate pullets about 10 days younger in another coop. There are 2 pullets in the first group that love to pick on the ones from the second coop when they're all out in the yard together. They will...
I have a pullet that escaped over a month ago and took up roosting in a large bush at the side of my yard. I thought I'd gotten her reintegrated with her former flockmates after she'd been loose about 2 weeks but I've noticed she's back in the bush. About how long should a chicken be shut up in...
.....survive wading through a flooded coop? I live in Huntsville Texas which has gotten RECORD amounts of rain (like we're up to almost 30" for the month of May) and flooding and where the coops are is a depression spot so completely covered with 1"-2" of water. They can get into the upper loft...
Had chicks hatched March 20 in a coop. Guess I didn't count right when I left them out roaming the back yard around April 25and they were 5 weeks oldish. One didn't get into the coop and took up residence in a big bush/shrub in the corner of our lot. She survived by herself 2 weeks out there...
Hi all! I have a group of a dozen EE's that are 5 weeks old. They've been out of the brooder in the coop area for 2 weeks now and not under any heat. (We're in Texas). Wondering when I can start letting them free range in our 1.2 acre yard? They seem so young, although they're fully feathered. I...